July 20th, 2011 – 10 Night Mediterranean "Mickey's European Explorers"

[madmum63]

Hi madmum. our daughter will be 11 in june. she's very social and i'm sure she'd like to tie up with a few "girlies" before we head off.

Hello there

I have PM'd you our email address for the girls

Speak soon

 

[madmum63]

Hello There


Helen Reed

The Stewarts

JDYBNSN

And sorry if I haven't seen others I have or am in the process of PM ing with email address for kids to get together. I am useless so you will have to bear with me I do get there eventually

Andrea

 

[starmaker]

Hi Madmum - thanks for the pm, I will send you dd's email address

 

[starmaker]

And Helenreed - will do the same re dd's email address

 

[thestewarts]

starmaker, helenreed and madmum i've dropped you all a note pm and will get our dd to email as soosn as i can.

 

[mika6617]

OK I think we are going to attempt Rome on our own! Have read Rick Steves Italy book and we will hire a guide to take us around St. peters and the Vatican Museum, still a bit nervous though!

On another subject the friends we are travelling with have a teenage girl who will be almost 15, I am sure she would love to connect with another teenage girl her age, anyone got one?!?!

Hi
Your daughter will fit right in straight away,what Disney does on a cruise ship for young people is amazing. This will be our fourth Disney one and our son will be 14 by the time we go and to be honest we will not hardly see him as he enjoys it so much hanging with new friends.

It will make a change to hear other cruisers with the same accent as us.

See you onboard

 

[K8T]

K8T
Hi there - can you explain the fish extenders thing - is it something to hang on the fish outside our staterooms? Thanks!

Hi Starmaker and welcome to the boards!

Yes you are right. Basically it is like a 'secret Santa', you hang pocket storage type thing, can be just a bag, or more elaborate, from the Fish outside your cabin door and all the people who have 'signed up' to do the FE exchange on your cruise thread, leave little gifts for you and your family.

If you do a search for Fish Extenders on the boards, you will get lots of ideas, not only for your FE, but also gifts.

I keep the list updated and it will close, probably a month before the actual cruise it may be split into two or more groups if there are loads of families taking part. I will then send everyone a plan of the ship, with cabins marked, showing where people are.

You then drop off your gift/gifts, during the course of your cruise.

We have done them twice now and our daughter loved waking up in the morning and checking outside the door to see if anything had been left, or coming back to the cabin and seeing something in the pockets. Gifts can be large or small, relate to the country you are from, handmade, or bought. You can give just for the children, or the adults, or a mixture of both.

Again, do a search for FE Gifts and you will get some ideas.

If you would like to join in, just let me have your cabin number and who is travelling with you. Children's ages are useful, as it helps pick an appropriate gift.

Kate

 

[helenreed]

Hi
Your daughter will fit right in straight away,what Disney does on a cruise ship for young people is amazing. This will be our fourth Disney one and our son will be 14 by the time we go and to be honest we will not hardly see him as he enjoys it so much hanging with new friends.

It will make a change to hear other cruisers with the same accent as us.

See you onboard

Hi,
We are also form Newcastle and I have a 13 year old son and another family are travelling with us with a 13 DS also. Would he like to start e-mailing them?

 

[DLRPfan.be]

Hi
Your daughter will fit right in straight away,what Disney does on a cruise ship for young people is amazing. This will be our fourth Disney one and our son will be 14 by the time we go and to be honest we will not hardly see him as he enjoys it so much hanging with new friends.

I couldn't agree more: once they've discovered the amazing youth activities, you won't see them very often !

 

[madmum63]

Hello there

JDYBNSN Helen reed
Starmaker The Stewarts

I have sent you all an email from DD hope you get it as I really don't know what I am doing. If DD doesnt hear from you we will try and send them again.

JDYBNSN Helen Reed

DS will be in touch when he comes home from school. He has a night off tonight so can do it himself. He knows what he is doing so I will try and get a lesson from him

I have noticed on the FE list that we have The triplet Gang, Ch10dad, and Mika6617 who have children the same age as ours. I will PM you and give you our email address if your kids want to chat before going on holiday.

thanks Andrea

 

[madmum63]

We will be neighbours - my Daughter and I are in 7622 And yes, I would be interested in a ladies lunch - great idea... I live on the Staffordshire/Cheshire border so may well not be a million miles away from where you are in the real world too!

Also, if you do decided to get together at the Trafford Centre (or anywhere else for that matter) for a 'pre-meet' count me in!

Manda

Hello there

If this pre meet happens please can you count me in. Also I have a friend coming on the cruise who would want to come as well. She is not chatting on here yet but I know that she is spying on us and our chat.

Thanks Andrea

 

[starmaker]

Hi K8T
Thanks for your reply re fish extenders and yes please add us to your list. DD is now happily planning what we'll be doing (with reminders that 1. we must stick within our luggage allowance!! 2. stuff will break in our luggage and 3. what we do will be dependant on the final numbers in our group!!) So needless to say she's had to re-think several ideas so far

 

[madmum63]

Hi K8T
Thanks for your reply re fish extenders and yes please add us to your list. DD is now happily planning what we'll be doing (with reminders that 1. we must stick within our luggage allowance!! 2. stuff will break in our luggage and 3. what we do will be dependant on the final numbers in our group!!) So needless to say she's had to re-think several ideas so far

Hello Starmaker

Got your PM before thanks. Didn't realise you were from UK.

With regard to FE gifts, I carried them as hand luggage last August. They were in one of the larger re-usable Mickey bags that you buy from Disney Store (approx £3.50). Not one person stopped me to weigh or measure it as a carry on and it went through the x-ray machine perfect. I was just going to say it was one of the childrens birthday's and the stuff was for party bags if I was asked. I didn't want to stand around explaining FE to them.

 

[K8T]

Hi K8T
Thanks for your reply re fish extenders and yes please add us to your list. DD is now happily planning what we'll be doing (with reminders that 1. we must stick within our luggage allowance!! 2. stuff will break in our luggage and 3. what we do will be dependant on the final numbers in our group!!) So needless to say she's had to re-think several ideas so far

Added, although I didn't have your names, if you let me have them, I will update.

We are off to Austria at the weekend for a weeks skiing, so won't be around the boards for a bit, when we get back, it will be planning in earnest.

Definately up for lunch at the Trafford. I can do Mondays and Thursdays with the possibility of Fridays, but would be a bit late (1ish).

Any thoughts?

Kate

 

[starmaker]

Hi "TheStewarts", DD got email from your dd and has replied - thanks. Have pm'd the others with contacts.

Madmum, no emails yet from your end...may be lost in cyberspace!

K8T - thanks for adding us, I'll pm you our info for the fish extenders and have fun on your travels.

Great to hear from you all

 

[mika6617]

Hi,
We are also form Newcastle and I have a 13 year old son and another family are travelling with us with a 13 DS also. Would he like to start e-mailing them?

Hi Helen I'll send you our son's (perry) email address and other stuff such as facebook etc so they could have a chat.

Cheers

 

[madmum63]

Thanks K8T for FE glad you only thought about old and even older

Starmaker

Have emailed you today I think I am stuck in Cyberspace

MIKA6617

will get No 1 son to get in touch with yours thankyou

DS has just got a new partner (He does Ballroom and Latin) We live near Blackpool she lives in Kent They will be having solid lessons until the beginning of May as it is the Junior Worlds at Easter in Blackpool and they say that they will be there Mixed feeling on their commitment. However can only admire the determination. If he is out of the loop with people that he may have talked to already, I apologise but he will be back again in May, when they settle down to normal lessons and commuting. Sorry I know its not Disney but needed to let you know he's not being rude ignoring you. Thanks

A xx

 

[mika6617]

Hi,
We are also form Newcastle and I have a 13 year old son and another family are travelling with us with a 13 DS also. Would he like to start e-mailing them?

Hi Helen
I feel stupid here but my wife has just pointed out to me that I have subscibed to this forum in error, I'm on the ship a week after.
(what a fool eh?)

Michael

 

[madmum63]

Hi Helen
I feel stupid here but my wife has just pointed out to me that I have subscibed to this forum in error, I'm on the ship a week after.
(what a fool eh?)

Michael

Dont worry Michael Any man could have made the same mistake


Sorry only joking but thanks for letting us know. My DD wrote to yours. I am sure your DD will have lots of friends to talk to on the date that you are going.

Enjoy your cruise

 

[jdybnsn]

Definately up for lunch at the Trafford. I can do Mondays and Thursdays with the possibility of Fridays, but would be a bit late (1ish).

Any thoughts?

Kate

Mondays are good for me......

...or if people think it would be good for the kids to meet then perhaps we could set a date in the Easter holidays (we are away for Whitsun) or even perhaps a Saturday or Sunday afternoon ?